If you were to ask a Doctor Who fan in 2011 if the venerable sci-fi franchise was the biggest fandom on the planet, the answer might have been yes. Before the MCU truly took hold in 2012, and well before Star Wars and Star Trek made their franchise expansions in 2015 and 2017, respectively, it seemed, for a brief time until after “The Day of the Doctor” in 2013, that Who was the sci-fi universe to beat. So what happened? A new insight from a longtime Who contributor might sum up exactly why the Disney+ era of the long-running TV travel series didn’t quite work out.
Minor spoilers ahead for Doctor Who Season 2 (2025).
